Archives for March 2016

Here we are on our next-to-last night in this amazing place. We have heard about national branding and the promotion of tourism from the Botswana Investment and Trade Center, and we have heard from the US Embassy Economics Officer about the ... Continue Reading Two Countries Botswana is full…

The past two days have been extremely busy ones, so it's time for a recap! Monday we started the day by going to visit a small children's school and a water filtering place. We learned how they were able to filter water and provide it to the ... Continue Reading Two steps forward, and one…

Here is another: lekgoa--a complicated word in Satswana, the language spoken in Botswana. Uttered by a child when seeing a white adult make for example, it may seem innocent enough. "Lekgoa!" or "White man!" (I remember similar comments from smiling, ... Continue Reading Hope and Peace Two words…

One thing to know about a country with a lot of stray dogs: bring earplugs because there will be a lot of barking and you will without a doubt be woken up before you want to be.
We started our second day with a talk by Dr. Saamdu, a Lama who gave us ... Continue Reading Kaadinchey! Kaadinchhey! Which means thank…

It took a while; but we made it safely and on time in Gaborone on Saturday afternoon. This whimsical elephant statue (life-sized) met us at the airport!
Wasting no time, we had a good dinner at our hotel, enjoyed a lovely evening settling in and ... Continue Reading Team Botswana, GCP 2016

Everyone is more friendly than we expected them to be. We love everyone in this group and we have all connected with each other more than we all thought possible.
The architecture of the city blends traditional with modern and constantly ... Continue Reading Oslo, Norway 27,183 steps per…

After 36 hours of travel we finally landed in Bhutan! If you have a couple of minutes, do yourself a favor and look up videos of the fly in to Bhutan. It was absolutely breathtaking and I wish that the pictures on my phone could have done it justice. ... Continue Reading Bhutan group finally takes Bhutan

¡Day 2 in la República Domincana fue muy increíble! We started out the morning by attending a church service with our Nazarene host family. We got to meet all of the kids during their class time, and they were all SUPER adorable. Most of the(3 hour ... Continue Reading Put the lime in the…

Official day one has come to an end here in la República Dominicana! We're having great fun, and only half of us are sunburnt. We went out to spend some time walking around this evening to explore the community. We caught some gorgeous views and ... Continue Reading Blancos Blancos! That’s as blancos…